Books by James Sallis
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review 1: A lovely novel. 'Examination' of solitude and dying is too sterile of a a description, and though I hate to use the word 'meditation' because it sounds so hoity-toity and faux-intellectual, it has the same connotation as THE KILLER IS DYING, that ethereal drifting feeling you get...
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review 1: My only experience with Sallis' work to date was the cinematic adaptation of Driver, which I didn't like. But this book was just slender enough of a noncommitment to give the author another try and I'm so glad I did. If Sallis' writing is noir, then maybe I like noir more than I ...
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review 1: My second read by the author and once again I'm struck by just how much I like noir when it's Sallis' noir. And this book is difficult to like, or at the very least difficult to recommend, due to its overwhelmingly bleak nature. Then again what would one expect from a title like ...